This semester the seminar will mostly meet on Tuesdays
at 4:00 PM in 5280 Chamberlin
If hyperlinked, click on the title to download the slides from the seminar
| Date | ||
| Feb 8 | Akiakzu Hashimoto UW-Madison |
Open/Closed String Duality for Topological Gravity with Matter |
| Feb 15 | Yongbin Ruan UW Madison |
Closed string sector in Landau Ginzburg A-model |
Feb 22 | David Mateos Perimeter Institute |
Supersymmetric Black Rings and Supertubes |
| Mar 8 | Davide Gaiotto Harvard |
Black Hole Attractors and Superconformal Quantum
Mechanics 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Time |
| Mar 14 | Horatiu Nastase Brown University |
Black hole production, the Froissart bound, the
soft Pomeron and the RHIC fireball from AdS-CFT Monday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Date and Time |
| Mar 16 | Eva Silverstein SLAC |
Spacetime Singularities, Topology, and Strings Physics Colloqueum |
| Mar 22 | No Seminar |
Spring Break |
| Mar 28 | Andrew Neitzke Harvard |
Elements of topological M-theory Monday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Date and Time |
| Apr 12 | Stefano Giusto Ohio State |
Kontsevich models and the moduli space geometry of FZZT Liouville
branes Tuesday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Time |
| Apr 19 | Vasily Pestun Princeton |
The Hitchin functionals and the topological B-model at one loop Tuesday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Time |
| Apr 21 | Mikhail Shifman University of Minnesota |
QCD Strings as Inspiration and as a Challenge to String Theory Thursday 2:30pm at Chamberlin 4274: Note Special Date and Room |
| Apr 22 | Mikhail Shifman University of Minnesota |
Supersymmetry & How It Helps Us Understand Our World Special Physics Colloquium. Friday 4:00 pm at 1300 Sterling Hall |
| May 3 | No Seminar |
DIS and Phenomenology Conferences |
| May 10 | Chirs Beasley Princeton |
New Instanton Effects in String Theory
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